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"WHAT BETTER PLACE TO CELEBRATE & GATHER THEN RIGHT HERE". WE HAVE ARRANGED FOR A NIGHT OF STORYTELLING, MUSIC & SONG, SATURDAY 16TH OF JULY 2016 IN CELEBRATION OF OUR O'DEMPSEY HERITAGE.WE ARE ALL MEETING FOR THE 2ND TIME, SO DON'T BE SHY PLEASE & JOIN OUR CLAN GATHERING EVENTS.

OUR EVENTS IN LAOIS CO. IRELAND ARE IN CELEBRATION OF "THE O'DEMPSEY'S OF CLANMALIRE" DEMPSEY FAMILIES also found spelt as Dempsie, Dimpsay or Dimpsey & OTHER GUESTS WITH INTEREST - The O'Dempseys were of the same descent as the O'MORES, O'Dunns / Ó Doinn , O'Connors Failghe, being lords of Offaly and sometimes styled Barons of Phillipstown .......The O'Dempseys, also referred to as the Clan Maliere, were for long one of the powerful families in the Province of Leinster. Their estates in Clan Maliere extended on both sides of the River Barrow in Queen's County [now County Laois or Laoghis] and King's County [now County Offaly]. The lands comprised the baronies of Portnalinch in Laois and Upper Phillipstown in Offaly.HOME OF THE O'DEMPSEY NAME IS IN OFFALY CO. & LAOIS CO. & HAS REMAINED SO FOR MANY GENERATIONS,

DempseyIn the original Irish Dempsey is Ó Diomasaigh, from diomasach, meaning "proud". The name was also occasionally anglicised "Proudman". The Ó Diomasaigh originated in the territory of Clanmalier, on the borders of what are now counties Laois and Offaly, and remained powerful in the area until the seventeenth century. In the 12th century. O’Dempsey, Chief of Offaly, was one of the few native Irish leaders who defeated Strongbow.